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Terje Rypdal
What Comes After [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in January 1974, CD is re-released in October 2020 in the ECM Touchstone Series. What Comes After introduced a new alliance with American bassist Barre Phillips whose freely creative arco playing is often the second lead voice... |
KOMITAS / HAMASYAN / HENRIKSEN / AARSET / BANG
Atmosphères Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang [ ECM / 2 CD - released 26/Aug/2016 ] This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new group with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM - Jan Bang on Eivind... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Opening (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On the album Opening, Tord Gustavsen reveals a fresh angle to his particularly unique trio investigations into Scandinavian folk hymns, gospel, chorale and jazz, as he introduces a different voice on bass. With a new fellow-traveller on board and... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
Seeing (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 4/Oct/2024 ] With Seeing, Tord Gustavsen begins an intricate new chapter in his series of acclaimed trio recordings, initiated in 2003 with Changing Places - an album that is today considered a classic. The new recording with its compact, concentrated song forms... |
Tord Gustavsen Trio
What Was Said (2LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 12/Feb/2016 ] What Was Said brings new colours to Tord Gustavsen's musical palette. His new project introduces the entrancing German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and builds upon the subtle understanding of his long musical association with drummer Jarle... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Kancheli: Songs Of Fate Vida Mikneviciute (soprano), Magdalena Ceple (cello), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2024 ] "Gidon Kremer has perhaps never before revealed himself as intimately and as existentially focused as on this recording", observes Wolfgang Sandner in his liner note accompanying the Latvian violinist's album Songs of Fate. |
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Vijay Iyer presents a powerful new trio, in which he is joined by two key figures in creative music, Tyshawn Sorey and Linda May Han Oh. "We have an energy together that is very distinct. It has a different kind of propulsion, a different impulse and... |
Vijay Iyer Sextet
Far From Over [ ECM CD / CD - released 25/Aug/2017 ] Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer's energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet finds Iyer reaching a new peak,... |
Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff [ ECM / CD - released 13/Mar/2015 ] "Break Stuff" is what happens after formal elements have been addressed. Vijay Iyer calls the break "a span of time in which to act. It's the basis for breakdowns, breakbeats, and break dancing... it can be the moment when everything comes to life."... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life [ ECM / CD - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith
Defiant Life (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 21/Mar/2025 ] Anchored in the idea that, despite all obstacles, the human experience casts a net of possibilities, Defiant Life - Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith second duo recording for ECM - proves a profound meditation on the human condition and both the... |
CYRILLUS KREEK
Kreek: The Suspended Harp of Babel Vox Clamantis [ ECM / CD - released 8/May/2020 ] "The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability…The final impression is abiding solace for these distracted times." BBC Music Five Stars. Choral & Song Choice July 2020 |
HENRIK ØDEGAARD
Music By Henrik Ødegaard Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (conductor) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] On this newest endeavour, the Vox Clamantis choir, under the direction of Jaan-Eik Tulve, turns its attention towards Norwegian composer Henrik Ødegaard with a fine-drawn programme of liturgical choral music. In a subtle sleight of hand, Ødegaard's... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms / Schumann Yuuko Shiokawa (violin), Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] After tackling the sonatas for violin and piano of Bach, Busoni and Beethoven in 2017 - a "thoughtfully determined and subtly interconnected programme" according to Strad magazine -, the duo of Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff returns with striking... |
MATHIAS DUPLESSY
El último aliento Zsófia Boros (classical guitar) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] The focus of Zsófia Boros's third recording for ECM's New Series is split two-ways, with one spotlight turned towards contemporary compositions from Argentina and the other on the multiple-idioms spanning music of French composer Mathias Duplessy.... |
Abdullah Ibrahim
African Piano (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Jun/2005 ] Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club - Copenhagen's famous Jazzhus Montmartre - the flavour of this album is 'documentary' rather than... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas: Complete Edition András Schiff (piano) [ ECM / 11 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Andras Schiff: "The Beethoven sonatas can be logically divided into three distinct groups: early, middle and late. To me, playing them in chronological order is most convincing and deeply satisfying. Among the thirty-two there is not one weak link.... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas Volume 5: Sonatas opp. 31 and 53 (Incs The Tempest & Waldstein) Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM / 2 CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "The remarkable timbral distinctions (Schiff) obtains from his Steinway, fastidious execution of turns and other ornaments, plus painstakingly differentiated accents, articulation marks and dynamics. Sometimes his compulsive detailing casts a fresh... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
Andrew Cyrille, Wadada Leo Smith, Bill Frisell
Lebroba (LP) [ ECM / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago:... |
